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Michio Kushi is best known for popularizing the macrobiotic diet, a way of eating that emphasizes whole grains, vegetables, beans and seaweed while avoiding certain processed foods and animal products The macrobiotic diet is based on traditional Japanese principles, and Kushi, along with his wife Aveline, introduced this philosophy to the West through educational efforts and through the opening of the Kushi Institute for Macrobiotics in 1978. He was not a scientist but rather a health educator and a philosophical thinker who influenced the natural foods movement: